Miles Weaver, Chair of Grand Challenges and OR, Associate Professor, Centre for Business Innovations and Sustainable Solutions, Edinburgh Napier University
Chris Roberts, Co-Founder of North Wales Dragons Community Football Teams and member of the FA Wales Sustainability Advisory Panel
Each year at the OR conference, we pose a “grand challenge” pertinent to the host city, the UK, and beyond. This year in Bangor, we shall focus on dragons – the football kind and those that riot.
We will first hear from Chris Roberts, who, through football, is helping to address gender equality and reduce inequalities while supporting good health and well-being. He seeks to ask, can OR help evidence the value of WHAT they are doing and demonstrate the values that demonstrate WHY they do so? Finally, we shall reflect on the recent tragedy witnessed in Southport and the far-right anti-immigration protests and riots that followed. With the rise of social media and big data, can OR help predict a riot and its eventual diffusion?
Following the discussion on where OR can help, we will offer potential pro bono projects, student projects, and research collaborations that we, the OR community, can pursue.
“Yma o Hyd”.
Citation
Weaver, M. (2024, September). Grand Challenges and OR: Bangor, Dragons and Predicting Riots. Presented at OR66 The Operational Research Society Annual Conference, Bangor, UK
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OR66 The Operational Research Society Annual Conference
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